Literature takes shape with Futuropolis
- Exhibition - sale of original boards, from September 7 to October 12, 2018.
The Galerie Gallimard is pleased to host a new exhibition dedicated to graphic literature with the publisher Futuropolis, organized in two parts.
The great illustrated texts
It was with Jacques Tardi illustrating Louis-Ferdinand Céline's Voyage au bout de la nuit that the "Futuropolis / Gallimard" collection was born in 1988. This new collection of illustrations of great literary texts by comic book authors would give rise to many remarkable creations, intimate and complicit dialogues between a writer and an illustrator: L’Étranger by Albert Camus illustrated by the incisive and sensitive inks of José Muñoz, Joann Sfar and Manuele Fior playing Romain Gary or Manu Larcenet who chose Journal d'un corps by Daniel Pennac. In all, around forty books up to the last one, to be published in 2019: Marguerite Duras, L’amant de la Chine du nord by Philippe Dupuy.
When authors draw words
The "graphic novel" was born from the meeting of the writer's universe with that of the cartoonist-adapter. From text to image, from words to drawings, Futuropolis has always defended these adaptations of literature into comics - from the great classics of world literature such as Le vieil homme et la mer by Ernest Hemingway illustrated by Thierry Murat or Martin Eden by Jack London adapted by Aude Samama and Denis Lapière to those of French literature, like La belle image by Marcel Aymé or La Délicatesse by David Foenkinos illustrated by Cyril Bonin.
In total, the exhibition “Literature is drawn with Futuroplis” offers for sale 34 original plates and drawings and two numbered and signed pigment prints by Tardi and Muñoz.
Another form of literary rentrée, drawn this time, to discover!
Aude Samama and Denis Lapière, adaptation of Trois fois dès l’aube by Alessandro Baricco.
On the occasion of the exhibition "Literature takes shape with Futuropolis", brothers Gaëtan and Paul Brizzi will be signing their works L’Automne à Pékin, based on the novel by Boris Vian, and La Cavale du Dr Destouches, screenplay by Christophe Malavoy, based on the work by Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
